2021 Pulitzer Prize Winners
The 2021 Pulitzer Prize winners in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music were announced on June 11th at Columbia University in New York City. Biographical information on this year’s winners and finalists is available at Pulitzer.org. The following is a list of the winners in Books, Drama, and Music. There are links to the catalog for items that are available in the library system. Books with an asterisk (*) are available in more than one format.
Fiction
**The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
Finalists:
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason (Little, Brown and Company)
Telephone by Percival Everett (Graywolf Press)
Drama
The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall
Finalists:
Circle Jerk by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley
Stew by Zora Howard
History
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (Liveright/Norton)
Finalists:
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson (Scribner)
Biography
**The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by the late Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Liveright/Norton)
Finalists:
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (Alfred A. Knopf)
Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (Scribner)
Poetry
"Postcolonial Love Poem" by Natalie Diaz (Graywolf Press)
Finalists:
"A Treatise on Stars" by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (New Directions)
"In the Lateness of the World" by Carolyn Forché (Penguin Press)
General Nonfiction
**Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Finalists:
**Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (One World/Random House)
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Random House)
Music
"Stride" by Tania León, premiered on February 13, 2020 at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City (Peermusic Classical) (link to video of rehearsal)
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